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Translation means to copy writing or speech from one language into a different language.

The people who do translation are called translators. A translator who is copying a book into another language may use a language dictionary to find out how a word is written in another language. A translator who works with the spoken word is also called an interpreter. Translators can work independently as freelancers or by being hired by translation agencies. People translate poetry, novels, drama, or short stories are called literary translators.

In computer technology, translation from a programming language to a machine language is called compiling. There are free translators on the internet.

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King Charles V the Wise commissions a translation of Aristotle. First square shows his ordering the translation; second square, the translation being made. Third and fourth squares show the finished translation being brought to, and then presented to, the King.
Rosetta Stone, a secular icon for the art of translation
John Dryden
Cicero
Samuel Johnson
Martin Luther
Johann Gottfried Herder
Ignacy Krasicki
Buddhist Diamond Sutra, translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva: world's oldest known dated printed book (868 CE)
Perry Link
Muhammad Abduh
Dryden
Schleiermacher
Venuti
Mark Twain back-translated his own story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
Hernán Cortés and La Malinche meet Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, 8 November 1519.
Lin Shu
Claude Piron
Geoffrey Chaucer
Marsilio Ficino
Edward FitzGerald
Benjamin Jowett
Hofstadter
Nabokov
Mistranslation: Michelangelo's horned Moses
Chinese translation, verses 33–34 of Quran's surah (chapter) 36

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In Spanish: Traducción para niños

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